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The memories we return to most frequently are the most inaccurate, the least faithful to reality...This is the tragic realisation made by the narrator of Ramifications as he tries to make sense of the defining event of his childhood: the disappearance of his mother to join the Zapatista uprising that shook Mexico in 1994. Left behind with an emotionally distant father who is singularly unqualified to raise him, and an older sister who only wants to get on with being a teenager, he takes refuge in strange rituals that isolate him from his peers: favouring the left-hand side of his body, trying to tear leaves into perfect halves, obsessively shaping origami figures. Now, two decades older and withdrawn from the world, he folds and unfolds these memories, searching the creases for the truth of what happened to his mother, unaware that he is on the verge of a discovery that will destroy everything he believed he knew about his family.Award-winning Mexican author Daniel Saldaña París masterfully evokes a child’s attempts to interpret events beyond his understanding. Less a Bildungs-roman than a tale of arrested development, this story of a boy growing up in the aptly-named Educación neighbourhood of Mexico City is a rich and moving portrait of a life thwarted by machismo and secrecy.

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México, años noventa: un niño es abandonado por su madre, quien se une al levantamiento zapatista. Años después, ese niño, ahora un adulto encerrado en su casa, y en sí mismo, tratará de descubrir la verdad sobre su pasado. Con El nervio principal, su segunda novela, Daniel Saldaña París ha recreado con escalofriante exactitud la fantasmagoría de una infancia hipersensible, marcada por un evento que habrá de repetirse, distorsionado, en las volubles capas de la memoria del protagonista. Para ello se ha valido de una prosa elegante, que construye con delicadeza la mirada compasiva que el narrador le dirige a ese niño con el que ya no guarda ningún vínculo.

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La gran nueva promesa de las letras mexicanas despunta con una novela desenfadada y socarrona, que divertirá y conmoverá a los lectores.Rodrigo es un burócrata joven que fácilmente podría pertenecer a lo que Strindberg llamó el club de los jóvenes viejos. Sus días pasan sin mayores aspavientos en un museo de la Ciudad de México hasta que Cecilia, la secretaria que le hacía la vida imposible, le desliza una nota que simplemente dice Acepto. Esa tarde Rodrigo se enterará de que alguien le ha propuesto matrimonio a Cecilia en nombre suyo, y la inercia que rige sus días no le deja más opción que casarse. A partir de ahí se desencadena una siniestra odisea en la que pierde su trabajo y pasa el rato espiando a una gallina que deambula por el terreno baldío contiguo a su departamento.De manera paralela un académico y escritor español, Marcelo Valente, viaja a una pequeña comunidad situada en México, llamada Los Girasoles, para pasar un sabático investigando sobre Richard Foret, un miste

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"Brief, brilliantly written, and kissed by a sense of the absurd....like a much lazier, Mexico City version of Dostoevsky's Underground Man."—John Powers, Fresh Air“Daniel Saldaña París knows how to talk about those other tragedies populating daily life: a boring, unwanted marriage; mind numbing office work; family secrets. He builds on those bricks of tedium a greatly enjoyable and splendidly well-written suburban farce.” —Yuri HerreraRodrigo likes his vacant lot, its resident chicken, and being left alone. But when passivity finds him accidentally married to Cecilia, he trades Mexico City for the sun-bleached desolation of his hometown and domestic life with Cecilia for the debauched company of a poet, a philosopher, and Micaela, whose allure includes the promise of time travel. Earthy, playful, and sly, Among Strange Victims is a psychedelic ode to the pleasures of not measuring up.Daniel Saldaña París (born Mexico City, 1984) is an essayist, poet, and novelist whose work has been translated into English, French, and Swedish and anthologized, most recently in Mexico20: New Voices, Old Traditions, published in the United Kingdom by Pushkin Press. Among Strange Victims is his first novel to appear in the United States. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

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